Pretty, Pretty Good Finale
If you’re a long-time HBO viewer, it’s hard not hear the carnivalesque theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm (“Frolic” by composer Luciano Michelini) directly after the...
Fall Guy: Take the Plunge
We don’t appreciate stunt performers enough, and I say that as a guy who will spend an idle five minutes watching movie and TV...
Mars Express: Red Planet Revolt
I wasn’t looking for a French update of Ghost in the Shell, but now that one is playing this weekend at AMC Grapevine Mills,...
Challengers: Love Match
The astronomy guys have this thing called the three-body problem, which you may have heard of lately because it gave its name to a...
The Most Overlooked Movies of All Time*
* according to me and 838 other film critics
Right, so here’s how it all went down. In 2022, Sight & Sound magazine ran its...
Boy Kills World: Don’t Speak
It’s not often that a fictional character sums up the premise of his movie better than I could, but that’s what happens in Boy...
Sasquatch Sunset: The Last of Us
I don’t know if Sasquatch Sunset will wind up being the strangest movie I see in 2024, but it will definitely be a big...
Civil War: Shooting Conflict
This past week we saw Civil War, a movie about a second American civil war taking place in the near present. We are four...
Sting: Along Came a Spider
Like many people, I have seen the superbly funny YouTube clip where film director Kevin Smith describes his experiences working on an aborted Superman...
Femme Plot
Just a few weeks ago in this space, I was wondering where all the violent, unstable thrillers about gay men were. Right now, one...
